Devilled Almonds - 1927
Date: February 15, 2006 | Discussion: No Comments
From the Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 1927 edition:
Ingredients
2 ounces blanched and shredded almonds
Butter
1 tablespoons Chutney
2 tablespoons chopped pickles
1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
1/4 teaspoon salt
few grains cayenne
Fry almonds until well browned, using enough butter to prevent almonds from burning. Mix remaining ingredients, pour over nuts, and serve as soon as thoroughly heated.
Must have been quite the thing [...]
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Toffee Cookies - Mabel Platts
Date: February 15, 2006 | Discussion: 1 Comment
I found this recipe card, minus a large corner, inside The Boston Cooking School Cook Book. By Fannie Farmer, this edition has a copyright of 1927 with the date of December 18, 1941 written on the bookend and the signatures of Wendell H. Gordon, Natalie Jane Gordon, Brant Rock 1941 and Mercedes Prudence Budd Gordon. [...]
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Mrs. Rasmussen’s Book of One Arm Cookery
Date: February 9, 2006 | Discussion: 2 Comments
Among my old cookbooks is “Mrs. Rasmussen’s Book of One Arm Cookery“, which if Mom reads this, will probably want back. Published in 1946 with terrific “Decorations” by George Price, it is written by Mary Lasswell who had written “Suds in Your Eyes“. Mrs. Rasmussen was the cook in that book. Mom said she and [...]